Imaging the colliding Indian and Asian lithospheric plates beneath Tibet

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Kumar, Prakash ^a,b   Yuan, Xiaohui ^a   Kind, Rainer ^a,c   Ni, James ^d  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; IMAGING METHOD; INDIAN PLATE; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SUBDUCTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 33750515425     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB003930     Document Type: Article

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